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...angry men were responsible for the exhibit: Chicago Art Dealer Richard Feigen, a Democrat who found himself shoved into the aisle during the convention by Daley's sanitation workers, and Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who was visiting the city at the time and, as he recounts it, got "tossed to the ground by six swearing troopers who kicked me and choked me and called me a Communist." In such a context, Oldenburg told Feigen, "a gentle one-man show about pleasure" that he had originally promised the gallery for November seemed "a bit obscene." Still, he was willing to help...
Cascade of Grease. In many ways, the patron saint of the exhibit is Soft Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, who last year got the City of New York to hire two gravediggers to dig a hole for him in Manhattan's Central Park, then fill it in, thereby burying a nonexistent "underground sculpture." His offering this time round: a Plexiglas cube stocked with night crawlers and humus, titled Worm Earth Piece. Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, on the other hand, used the gallery as a site on which to build an earthwork out of 1,200 pounds of dirt and peat moss...
Cutting Satire. For all his cult of objects, Samaras has never become as famous as the pop artists with whom he first exhibited. If Claes Oldenburg or Tom Wesselmann turned out a strawberry sundae, it looked good enough to eat. Samaras filled his sherbet glass with nails and topped it off with a razor. Such cutting satire made it impossible for dealers to promote him as part of the bland pop school. But this year dealers are pushing the school of no-school. The premium is on artists whose versatility makes them impossible to be pigeonholed. Samaras neatly fills that...
This year, with 27 posters rolling off the presses, Mrs. List is busier than ever. For its May opening, Washington's National Collection of Fine Arts commissioned posters by Lee Bontecou, Chryssa, Allan d'Arcangelo, Sam Francis, Larry Rivers and Claes Oldenburg. The New York City Center has ordered a 25th anniversary portfolio in which Lowell Nesbitt, George Segal and Jim Dine will celebrate the drama, ballet and comic-opera companies...
...seen as the spiritual forefather of postcubist movements, ranging from the gesture paintings of the abstract expressionists to the gaily erotic whimsies of such pop artists as Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg. Miró is not only the most influential painter of the generation that came to maturity between two world wars; he is also the finest living painter after Picasso...